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[adrian_the_dork]

Dear You,

I don't write here that much anymore. But I think of you every single day. Maybe it's just practice, but thinking of you, even though you're gone, doesn't hurt as much as it used to. The way my whole gut used to drop and my breath used to hitch in my throat when it slammed home that you were gone? That doesn't happen anymore. Maybe I'm

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[annabal_lecter]

God, I love you more than I rightly know how to say.

[adrian_the_dork]

<3 likewise.
How was the birthday?

[zukosphoenix]

I love you, babe. I'm glad to see this.

[adrian_the_dork]

and I am glad to see YOU.

[zukosphoenix]

I'm right here. Glad you are too.

[tigerweave]

Heya.

Autographs eh? That reminds me of a saying of Mark Twain: Heaven for the scenery, hell for the company. :-D

Hey tomatoes on the roof. So groovy, I wanna do that too, but our roof is like on an angle. Isn't yours?

And... I know those purple mountains and gumleaf grey...

[adrian_the_dork]

Yeah exactly! I'd like to go where the interesting people are, thanks. Sex, drugs, rock n roll for me.

We live in a block of flats and are up the top, so we have a weird little terrace thing that is kind of part of the roof. So like a flat bit with pavers and chairs and stuff. and then there's a little bit of roof that's not sloped enough for potplants to fall off it. So really it's not even a proper roof. it's just a little terrace thing that happens to be above the kitchen. Tiny teeny weeny, but kind of cool.

MMMMMMM, gumleaf grey. Incidentally I also miss canola yellow and patterson's curse purple. You'd know them as Gunning colours. :P

[tigerweave]

yes yes I know those colours!

Up here the colours are so different to down south. Lime green and ochre orange and charcoal black and bright green. And then the colour that's just plain dry. Don't you think there's a colour that's called Dry? I do!

But I spent the first 8 yrs of my life in NSW so yeah... :-)

Whenever you get back, I'll come and visit you and you can teach me to surf. YEAH!!!

Sounds pretty kewl, this little terrace thing. Good luck with the tomatos when it's finally warm enough :-)

[adrian_the_dork]

Sydney colours are really different to Wagga colours as well. Greener, but hardly that tropical lime green. Green and sandy coloured. No lovely orange dirt.

I would totally believe that there's a colour called "dry".

COME VISIT! In an ideal world I'd love to end up in Newcastle or Wollongong. Smaller and nicer than Sydney, but on the coast. I would move back to Wagga in a heartbeat, but theatre work there will be dull/hard to find. And it's too far from the coast. But holy shit I miss my sunburnt country. D's pretty excited at the prospect of getting sun ALL year too. But I know he'll miss lakes and snow and mist and birch trees just as much as I miss big blue skies and gum trees. But I am so glad to be coming home. But come visit! Lovely surf beaches north of Sydney! Dont know how good a teacher I am though. :P

<3

[withoutfire]

You are a beautiful writer! I'm very proud of you (is proud too much? :/) for being strong enough to articulate your feelings on a tender subject.

Your plans sound good to me, isn't it nice when you finally work out what you need to do? Are you looking for work similar to what you do now? (incidentally, theater job! jealous aha!)

If you need any tips on your veg growing I'm your girl! I grow my own veggies in the garden, I have done for a few years so I can probably help :)

[adrian_the_dork]

Aw Shucks. I doubt I could articulate things like this if someone actually asked me midway through a conversation. I'd probably flounder terribly. But writing has always been easier for me to do than talking. But thanks. :)

The plans are vague, but it is nice to have a direction to go in. Work wise, I'll probably look for theatre work (ha, mostly because it's about all I am qualified to do. Not like I have my fallback of teaching English in Aus. And who wants to learn Finnish?). Tbh, I'm pretty cool with any kind of work if I get to go surfing on sunday mornings.

Be prepared for me to pick your brain. I grew great tomatoes back home in Aus, but they're just not doing so well here. I think it's probably still too early and cold for them, to be honest. I wish we had the space for a full on veggie garden. I'm a bit jealous, actually. Home grown veggies can't be topped.

[withoutfire]

Surfing on Sunday mornings.. sounds perfect. I live near the coast, people surf a lot in the season, but as you can imagine the weather is not quite as sensational! Aha!

Pick away. I'm happy to try to help :) I put together my own veg pallet garden a few summers ago and you're right nothing beats home grown veg! One day I'd also like my own chickens to source fresh eggs (happy chickens lay the tastiest eggs) but I haven't got around to building a coop yet, the pallet garden takes up a lot of space too. I'd have to sacrifice some veggies to make room :/

[adrian_the_dork]

I would surf every morning given the chance. Heck, if Finland had decent waves, I would probably be in that water in the middle of winter. It is one of the things I miss desperately about home. :P
Where are you from anyway? Surely there's a summer. :P

Mmmmm, fresh eggs. You are totally right about the happy chooks part. My Grandma used to have a bunch of chooks in her backyard and those were the BEST omelettes I have ever had. Maybe convince your neighbour to keep the chickens. Then you could totally trade your home grown veggies for their eggs. Win?

[mooneyblue]

Hey there, Adrian. I've been missing you on here. I've been gone; you've been gone. Either way, it seems life has been doing what it does, whether we have time to write about it or not. I'm happy to see this post. All of it, really. I think about you fairly often for a stranger half way across the planet. If you ever want to come find me off lj, here's the where.
FB: tura mooney (cant imagine there are a lot of us)
tura.mooney@gmail.com

Lots of love, A. And to D, too.

[adrian_the_dork]

Hello stranger. fancy seeing you here. I've been terrible at getting on lj lately. Haven't seen you around in yonks either. Hope things are going as swimmingly for you as they were last time you posted. which was aaaaages ago and you were showing us the room of the place you were thinking of renting? How did that go anyway? Still running? I think I have totally caught the bug.

adrian_the_dork@hotmail.com is meeeee. I have facebook. but I don't really use it (don't really want idiots from school who were dickheads starting up the whole "soooooo, how are you? what are you doing now?" conversations.) but it is there. Adrian Callaghan.

[mooneyblue]

My life is good now. Beyond good, really. I do have that lovely room, not that Ive been there in over a month, though. Fallen in love, really. Brialliantly so. With a tall, fuzzy, fire-spinning, sideshow-performing engineer of a Bear. I'm working, fire-spinning, dancing, laughing, playing, and just living, really. Its a beautiful thing. Filled with a lot of joy these days. Its nice. I'll catch up here soon. If not soon, then eventually.

[adrian_the_dork]

OH HOLY CRAP THIS MAKES ME SO HAPPY TO READ!!!

Catch me up as soon as you can! Dying to know the details! Thrilled for you sweetcheeks. <3